A woman made up a story about being on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center when it was hit and became president of the WTC Survivors Network. She was in Spain when it happened! Alicia Head claimed to be a September 11th World Trade Center survivor who went by Tania Head. The Spaniard started an online survivor’s connection site and told her whole story. She claimed that she’d been on the 78th floor when the planes hit. The whole story was later debunked, though, when it was found out that she had never been to the US until 2003.
Nonetheless, Head gained enough media attention while claiming to be Tania that she became part of the World Trade Center Survivors Network and then became its president. She claimed that she’d worked for Merrill Lynch, but they said they had no record of her ever being employed by them. She was a strong advocate for the survivors and helped them succeed in some of their fights. After she was exposed, she was said to have committed suicide, but was seen in New York in 2011.